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US behind UK in digital payments

9 years 7 months ago
Payments

A new study from international payments engine Currency Cloud, reveals the majority of US businesses continue to battle major innovation hurdles when moving money across borders. Through a survey of US and UK finance professionals, Currency Cloud found the US has a lot to learn from its UK counterparts when it comes to international payments, with nearly half (47 percent) of US businesses still relying on old-fashioned paper checks. In contrast...

Incentivise Savers To Boost Invsetment For Mid-Sized Firms – CBI/BDO

9 years 7 months ago
Investment

Offering tax incentives to savers who commit to providing long-term finance for medium-sized businesses (MSBs) would help growing firms realise their full potential, according to a new CBI/BDO report. Stepping up: fixing the funding ladder for MSBs recommends ways the Government can encourage long-term debt and equity investment in these firms. The ‘forgotten army’ of Britain’s businesses, MSBs represent just 1.8% of companies, but generate...

Checkout.com To Expand Online Banking With Sofort Payment Option

9 years 7 months ago
Payments

Checkout.com is diversifying its online banking payment method mix by offering Sofort, an important European payment method, to its e-commerce merchants. SOFORT, a popular European payment method, is now available within Checkout.com’s Checkout platform. With one integration, Checkout.com merchants looking to sell in Europe can easily reach up to 18 million additional customers in 13 countries: Germany, Austria, France, Italy, Poland, Spain,...

Luxembourg’s banks select Worldline’s ACS platform for 3D-Secure

9 years 7 months ago
Payments, Security

Worldline, European market leader in payment and transactional services, has been selected by the Luxembourg banking community to provide its Access Control Server solution for 3D-Secure, in cooperation with LuxTrust, a Luxembourg-based certification authority.

UK fintech firm Alpha Insight rolls out into global banking sector

9 years 7 months ago
Banking

Alpha Insight, a UK fintech company with a three-year track-record of exceptional delivery, is looking to shake up the global financial sector through its real-time process monitoring and measurement solutions. Combining deep financial experience and technical monitoring skills, Alpha Insight successfully makes sense of millions of metrics, creating unrivalled end-to-end insight into financial organisations’ business flows without the...

Adecco Group Improves Bid Efficiency by 30 Percent with Huddle

9 years 7 months ago
Cloud

Adecco Group, the world’s leading provider of HR solutions, has today announced a 30 percent increase in bid efficiency since deploying enterprise cloud content collaboration platform Huddle. Huddle has enabled Adecco to shorten timeframes for collecting, sharing and managing the information and resources needed to prepare high quality bids by 30 percent — and close more sales opportunities.

Demand for IT security skills grows in line with adoption of cloud and mobile technologies

9 years 7 months ago
Cloud, Security

IT security professionals are set to be in huge demand for the rest of 2015, according to a newreport1 from Robert Half Technology. Almost half (47%) of UK CIOs predict that they will appoint additional IT security personnel to their teams this year. A similar number (45%) say that they will enhance cloud security in 2015,

IHSE GmbH shortlisted for IABM Design & Innovation Award

9 years 7 months ago
Infrastructure

IHSE GmbH has announced that it has been shortlisted in the Content and communication Infrastructure category of the IABM Design & Innovation Awards. The awards will be casting the spotlight on new solutions or products that bring benefit or create new opportunities to the broadcast and media industry.

Orc extends connectivity to Borsa İstanbul to enable access from next-generation trading platform

9 years 7 months ago

Orc, the global market leader in electronic trading technology for listed derivatives, today announced certified connectivity to Borsa İstanbul. This new high-speed interface enables quoting and trading on Borsa İstanbul for all Orc clients using the Execution Bricks or the Orc Trading Bricks platforms. Since its formation in 2013, Borsa İstanbul brings together all the exchanges operating in the Turkish capital markets under one roof.

Gaznat Optimizes Physical Energy Portfolio with OpenLink

9 years 7 months ago
Risk Management

OpenLink, the global leader in trading and risk management solutions to the energy, commodities, corporate, and financial services industries, today announced that Gaznat has gone live with its Optimization solution for physical asset portfolio optimization. Based in Vevey, Switzerland, Gaznat is a supplier and transporter of high pressure natural gas to Western Switzerland. Natural gas distributors such as large industrial services around the...

Scality Closes $45 Million Series D Funding to Transform the Storage Industry with Software-Based Storage Solution

9 years 7 months ago
Infrastructure

Scality, the leader in software-based storage for the information age, today announced it has completed a $45 million Series D funding round. The latest funding round includes new entrant and strategic partner BroadBand Tower, Inc. (BBTower), all existing investors, led by Menlo Ventures, and 65% of the Scality staff, bringing the total investment in Scality to $80 million.

FundedByMe Appoints New Country Manager For Finland

9 years 7 months ago
People Moves

Crowdfunding platform FundedByMe is strengthening its team in Finland with the appointment of Niclas Ahlström as Finland’s Country Manager from 25 August.

SunGard Cloud Recognized in 2015 Waters Rankings

9 years 7 months ago
Cloud

With the growth of its financial services cloud, SunGard has been recognized as the “Best Data Center Provider” by the readers of Waters magazine in the 2015 Waters Rankings. Voters selected SunGard for its ability to help customers standardize costs associated with facilities, hardware, software, processes and people.

FIME to launch testing tool for online payment terminals

9 years 7 months ago
Payments

In a move which will assist EMV® payment terminal, mobile point of sale (mPOS) and kernel developers to bring their products to market more efficiently, quickly and cost effectively, FIME has today launched its EVAL 4dev cloud-based service. A breakthrough in the testing world, this online service enables users to validate EMV Level 2 payment terminal kernels throughout the development phase 24/7 and from any location.